can be tricky! Here are suggestions that can make homework work for you and your child:
- Go over your child’s homework, and share how important you think it is. Make suggestions about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or the accuracy of solutions. But don’t do the homework for the child. You should never be the one staying up to finish the science fair project.
- Make sure that your child has a good place to study — plenty of room to spread out materials...the right kind of lighting...a comfortable chair.
- When your child is doing homework, make sure the entire family respects the activity as much as possible. Interruptions break concentration and make work take longer to complete!
- Try to set aside the same time each day for homework. This helps develop children develop the discipline they need to work on their own. When your schedule is going to change, try to build in homework time in advance so that everyone in the family knows the change.
- Make and follow rules for using the telephone, CD player/stereo, and TV during homework time. This will increase your child's chance for success.
- Review "memory work" with your child, once before going to bed and again in the morning whenever possible. Spelling, multiplication tables, arithmetic drills, state capitals, etc. are a challenge, but the whole family can help your child succeed.
- Encourage your child to use information from several sources when doing a written assignment. Help your child get acquainted with the wide range of available sources.
- Remember to monitor Internet resources because they are NOT equal. Help them learn the best way to do Internet searches.
- Visit your neighborhood public library with your child so you both know available resources.
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